fraction
Example Sentences
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“You’ve been here a fraction of the time everyone else has, but you’ve gotten pretty much double the amount of litter off the streets. Pretty rad, Fern.”
From Literature
The 2% you suggest is a modest rate — a fraction of most personal-loan rates and below the current rate of inflation.
From MarketWatch
It represents just a fraction of the Le Carré archive held at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, of which the Weston is a part, a collection comprising 1,237 boxes.
"However, people of color are correlated with lower emissions rates, indicating that a large fraction of this pollution is transported to these communities, rather than emitted by them."
From Science Daily
A charity boss who founded a community shop selling groceries at a fraction of the price of supermarkets said the concept was so successful "it had gone a bit nuts".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
